The Labour Party has pointed to a series of controversial past tweets from Rev Richard Cameron, who posted that “homosexual behaviour is a sin” and “allowing children to change their gender is wicked”.
In September he tweeted: “Christ has the power to help and change anyone. Obviously many gays hate this because want to carry on in their perversion.”
He also shared a series of controversial views on Islam, describing terrorism as “a problem Islam needs to deal with”, a full face veil as “oppressive and unBritish” and the prophet Muhammad as “a violent man”.
Labour revealed the minister’s tweets after Rev Cameron, the minister at Scotstoun Parish Church, branded Jeremy Corbyn a “terrorist sympathiser” on Wednesday.
As the Labour leader was entering the Heart of Scotstoun community centre in Glasgow, he stopped to tell reporters about a scarf he was wearing, which had been given to him by representatives of the Who Cares Scotland charity.
But he was interrupted by Rev Cameron who shouted: “I thought you’d be wearing your Islamic jihad scarf.”
He added: “Who’s going to be the first terrorist invited to the House of Commons when you’re prime minister?”
Footage of the encounter attracted much attention online.
Green MSP Ross Greer, a member of the Church of Scotland, tweeted: “Bigoted nonsense directed at Corbyn today doesn’t represent the @churchscotland. The bigoted…
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